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- Ben Hutchings wrote:
- >
- > In article <34f17607.7722015@news.xs4all.nl>,
- > Branko Collin <collin@xs4all.nl> wrote:
- > >
- > >(removed two ngs, added two more appropriate ones)
- > >
- > >On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:36:42 +1000, Alex Borodin
- > ><alex.borodin@qrail.com.au> wrote:
- > >
- > >>Andy Kellett wrote:
- <SNIP>
- > >>> The major changes which will be added, will be AGA and graphics
- > >>> card support for all AMOS modes, including its editor, yet still
- > >>> be able to provide the programmer with complete control over its
- > >>> graphics system.
- > >>
- > >>TCPI/IP network support! So that it can be used to write network
- > >>games. An implementation of sockets communication would be
- > >>ideal..
- > >
- > >Although I agree with this suggestion, I would like to point out that
- > >for simple Internet applications you can alreay use the TCP: device.
- > <snip>
- >
- > For real-time games (isn't that what AMOS is really for?) TCP is not
- > very useful. You should generally use UDP instead. This doesn't
- > really fit a file paradigm at all, which is why there is no handler
- > for a UDP: device.
-
- TCP/IP isn't really a file-oriented protocol, actually. It's
- Packet-oriented. That's why you have to run services like FTP,
- Telnet and NFS over the top of it to get any useful human-level
- transmission happening. TCP/IP is a transport.
-
- That's what makes it perfect for AMOS... if we can get hooks into
- it at the socket level, we can establish real-time network
- communications between different machines.
-
- The TCP: device which Branko was talking about, is something with
- which I am completely unfamiliar. Maybe it's some kind of handler
- which sets up a virtual drive over a TCP/IP link.. I dunno. Sounds
- really useful, but it still won't allow AMOS to transmit
- commands and data using sockets.
-
- Ciao for now.
-
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